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Report: Suspended Kentucky Player Went To A Party With Armed Student Bodyguard
Sophomore Kentucky basketball forward Tai Wynyard was suspended indefinitely from all team activities on Tuesday, with a Kentucky spokesperson explaining the punishment by using the always vague “violation of team rules” reason. Wynyard, who before coming to Kentucky played as a non-contract player ...
Entire Claremont Colleges Track Team Suspended After Accusation Of Assault During Nude Heist Caper
According to a report from The Student Life, the Claremont Colleges’ student newspaper, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men’s and women’s track teams have been suspended pending a university investigation into a nude theft attempt that went sideways. A police report from last weekend indicates that six s...
St. John's Breaks 11-Game Losing Streak By Beating No. 4 Duke
St. John’s opened its Big East schedule by dropping all eleven games so far this year—even losing to lowly DePaul—but today’s visit by Duke to Madison Square Garden turned things around for Chris Mullin’s squad as the Red Storm knocked off the fourth-ranked Blue Devils 81-77....
Washington State Gives Community Service Award To Player For Completing Court-Ordered Service
A hearty congratulations to Washington State linebacker Logan Tago for being awarded the Fall 2017 CCE Community Involvement Award! Tago notched an impressive 240 hours in the community during the fall semester. ...
East Lansing Columnist: ESPN Is The Real Irresponsible Party In MSU's Sexual Assault Scandal
The Lansing State Journal, overall, has done a fantastic job covering the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, as well as Michigan State’s basketball and football teams’ problems with reporting sexual assault and violence against women. Their editorial board was calling for MSU president Lou Anna Simo...
Former TCU Receiver Kolby Listenbee Sues School, Big 12 For Being "Pressured And Threatened" To Play Through Injury
Former TCU wide receiver Kolby Listenbee claims that he was pressured to play through injury in a lawsuit filed against the school, head coach Gary Patterson, athletic director Chris Del Conte, and the Big 12, among others. ...
Disease Outbreak Forces Duke Students To Abandon Flu-Riddled Tent City
Even in the best of conditions Krzyzewskiville, the tent city erected by Duke students before the North Carolina game in a performative tribute of extreme fandom, does not sound like a charming place to be. Getting drunk in a tent is a time-honored pastime, though since this particular gathering is ...
Appalachian State Tennis Player Suspended After Being Accused Of Directing Derogatory Comment At Black Opponent
This past weekend was supposed to be little more than a warm-up for Appalachian State’s men’s tennis team. Facing Lees-McRae and North Carolina A&T, one of North Carolina’s storied HBCUs, the home match was one of those early-season contests the Mountaineers scheduled against low-tier local program...
Missouri Athletic Director Says South Carolina Fans Spit On Women's Basketball Players, Used "The N-Word"
The South Carolina and Missouri women’s basketball teams have played and split two heated games this month, and in each match-up, fans from both sides have been accused of increasingly shitty and racist behavior. In the first game, a Missouri fan reportedly called USC players “thugs.” In this past S...
Under Armour Boss's Alma Mater Wins Shady Hoops Game, Has Folks Wondering If Money Buys Free Throws
The most moneyed Goliath in prep school athletics needed help from above, or from somewhere else, to vanquish a relative David in parochial hoops over the weekend....
Mark Dantonio And Tom Izzo Refuse To Accept Any Blame In MSU Sexual Assault Scandal
It’s been three days since an ESPN report painted a picture of Michigan State University as a school unable or unwilling to punish sexual abusers or rapists through any kind of accountable system, particularly when the accused were part of the football and men’s basketball teams. The looming publica...
Poor Valparaiso Freshman Dunked Out Of Existence
Say a prayer for Valparaiso freshman Mileek McMillan, for surely he will never be seen again on earth after what happened to him Saturday night:...
Michigan State's Issues With Reporting Sexual Assault Go Well Beyond The Larry Nassar Scandal
Michigan State trustee Joel Ferguson said it first, and he said it best: “There’s so many more things going on at the university than just this Nassar thing.”...
Penn State Knocks Off Ohio State In Bonkers, Buzzer-Beater Finish
Keita Bates-Diop’s desperation, long-range three with five seconds remaining drew Ohio State tied with visiting Penn State before Nittany Lion guard Tony Carr threw up his own long-range shot that went in off the glass as time expired and earned Penn State an 82-79 win over the 13th-ranked Buckeyes....
Report: Police Called To Kansas Men's Basketball Dorm Due To Guy "Wanting To Give Free-Throw Advice"
University of Kansas police were called to the men’s basketball dorm today because a man reportedly stopped by several times to try giving at least one player some advice on shooting free throws, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. ...
Luke Falk Says The Best Way To Honor Late Teammate Tyler Hilinski Is To Talk About Suicide
Washington State QB Luke Falk arrived in Alabama for the Senior Bowl wearing a No. 3 jersey to honor his teammate Tyler Hilinski, who died by suicide earlier this month. Falk and Hilinski played for the Cougars together for a few years, and as Falk heads towards the NFL Draft, he said he wanted to h...
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Report: FSU Quarterback Deondre Francois Investigated In Domestic Violence Incident [Updates]
The Tallahassee Democrat is reporting that Florida State quarterback Deondre Francois is being investigated in connection with a domestic violence incident that occurred early Wednesday morning....
Trae Young Threw A Change-Up And Took Down Kansas
In an overtime battle against Oklahoma State last Saturday afternoon, Trae Young put up one of the wildest statlines imaginable. The Oklahoma freshman used 51 percent of his team’s possessions, scored 48 points, and took 39 total shots. (He was 6-of-19 from two, 8-of-20 from three, and perfect on 12...
Does John Calipari Know What Socialism Is?
Duke managed to edge out Kentucky and land five-star recruit Zion Williamson on Saturday, meaning the Blue Devils now have the top three high school players in the country from the class of 2018. This left Wildcats coach John Calipari facing some questions about his recruiting strategy at a press co...
Mark Emmert Had Nothing To Say About Michigan State's Role In The Larry Nassar Case
While speaking with reporters at an NCAA conference in Indianapolis last Thursday, NCAA president Mark Emmert was asked to comment on Michigan State’s role in abetting Larry Nassar’s years of sexual abuse while he worked as a team doctor for the university’s women’s gymnastics and rowing teams. His ...